Reacting to the Top 16 Most Viewed Classical Music TikToks 

"I'd be too scared to do a surprise encore with Hilary Hahn" -the guys who did a surprise encore with Hilary Hahn

Audience: "BELLA CIAO! BELLA CIAO! BELLA CIAO CIAO CIAO!" Brett and Eddy: "Is that the Tetris theme?"

I LOVE YOU GUYS!! Thank you for sharing the video from my concert and Liu Jianwei’s impromptu duet with me. And thank you also for all you do for classical music. And now, I need to go practice. 😄❤️

Once Ray Chen taught a master class at my music school and while only three students got to directly play for Ray, he had all of us in the audience bring our instruments and then put up some very easy orchestral music on a projector so we could all play together with him. It was so much fun and even though it was years ago it is still one of my most vivid musical performance memories.

to add context to the tiktok with the opera singer from the audience: it was an encore performance for a solo recital, hence the lack of a male tenor to accompany her. liu jianwei, the audience member, said he would never attempt something like that ever again 😅

Now it’s the opposite of before- Brett is wearing formally-ish and Eddy looks like he just got out of bed. InTResTinG!

I was playing in the #3 concert with the scream lady. The whole string section was dying for the entire page - so many shaking shoulders from suppressed giggles 😂

So many people thought that the tenor that sang with Lisette was rude to jump in and sing. I thought it was cool and if someone did it to me I would most likely react similarly. For a world-class soprano to not be high-strung about it was great. So many people would have thought it was rude. She's an amazing person anyway. She did virtual masterclasses during 2020 for free or donation, and I had the opportunity to sing for her. It was great.

Honestly, preparing the orchestra parts of your rep, booking the front seats of orchestra level, and bringing instruments to surprise you at your concert is totally something TwoSetters would do.

7:00 letting random people "conduct" an orchestra is an awesome idea. Hopefully give some of them the spark to start their love of classical music.

My Queen of the Night video is definitely NOT the actual translation... 🤣 BUT it is inspired by what's happening in the plot. Yeah, the Queen of the Night is 🚩

heyyy that’s me singing #4!!! thank you both for including me!!! 🙏🏽

9:49 Here I thought it was completely impossible to not recognise “Bella ciao”, and yet you surprised me!

Opera singer here- laying down makes it easier to sing those high notes! Natural support- gravity does some of the work for you :)

Did you know that Haydn wrote Surprise Symphony exactly for the same reason as #3? He incorporated a minor melody to lull the aristocrats to sleep, then wake them up with a literal canon shot chord! Very funny

So for the Queen of the Night Aria one, you can actually see her voice box in sync with the staccato. I believe she's definitely singing it herself

Years and years ago, I met a man who had a huge pipe organ installed in his home! It was fking AMAZING!

"If you're not a musician you can always pick up an instrument and learn. It's good for you" - Brett Well Brett, as you know, thousands of your fans have done just that... myself included... and they continue to be inspired to do so. How much more music there is in the world now thanks to you guys! ❤

I cannot stop repeating #14, the soprano and her surprise accompaniment on her 4th encore. I just love it so much.

I was at a concert in Antwerp once where they played Tchaikovsky 5. The conductor then told the audience that they had prepared Waltz of the Flowers but they didn't seem to have a harpist. He asked if someone could play it in the audience by coming on stage, and one girl/woman volunteered! She nailed the opening too so I was really impressed. Afterwards some musicians went to congratulate her. My grandmother who was next to me thought it was staged.

Twoset is hinting us to bring our instruments with us to their concerts and surprise them during their performance lol Still remembered them saying before (probably in the video that they react to the girl playing violin while hula hooping?) that we'd better bring them hula hoop if we want to see them do that on stage during their tour lol. I wonder whether they can have a small section this time when they would accompany a Twosetter who brings their instrument lol Like if they set a certain piece in advance (yes lol), and randomly pick a Twosetter during their performance to play together, that would be cool (and probably chaotic lol). Just a random thought lol

9:45 That's "Bella ciao", by an italian twosetter who reminds you that there Is an european state looking like a boot who would be really happy seeing you during your world tour...Just in case...

I am so proud to be in your video guys 😂😂 🎹 Thanks for your reaction ❤

12:06 - I did something like that! There was a pianist playing some Italian arias in a place in Memphis, Tennessee, and he started one that I knew very well. I started to sing it softly, then he looked at me and I looked at him and we silently acknowledged the duet, and I sang the whole thing with him, then we shook hands, and I went off on my way. It was a rather magical impromptu musical moment.

The song they played on the big piano was 'Bella Ciao', an Italian protest folk song that became very popular after bring used the Netflix Series 'La Casa de Papel' or 'Money Heist' in English

10:51 Classical music is relaxing they said, you can even fall asleep they said ...

About noisy partying neighbors: My grandparents live in a busy city, and one day their neighbors decided to host a party until like 2AM. My grandfather, an organist, decided to repay the favor, woke up at 7:30PM and started playing organ very loudly.

Ahhh I love you Eddy♥️ setting the record straight at 9:00. "Just cause you sing like thaahahaaat doesn't mean you sing opera" THANK YOU from a fellow (slightly triggered) opera singer🙏🙌

First one, Shostakovich would've probably liked it. He was in London in '75 for the premiere of his 15th symphony and met Andrew Lloyd Webber at "Jesus Christ Superstar," and they were stanning each other.

All right, so obviously, I know the Queen of the night aria TikTok was meant to be a condensed version but the actual translated lyrics are “The vengeance of Hell boils in my heart, Death and despair flame about me! If Sarastro does not through you feel The pain of death, Then you will be my daughter nevermore. Disowned may you be forever, Abandoned may you be forever, Destroyed be forever All the bonds of nature, If not through you Sarastro becomes pale! Hear, Gods of Revenge, Hear a mother’s oath!” I’m not trying to be an opera snob. I just wanted to point out that this song is one of if not the heaviest, dramatic songs in the opera.

10:32 yes she did actually sing that you can tell because if you look at her neck you can see it vibrating and moving. She killed it!

I loved this so much, I honestly needed this video. Also, one of my friends got pregnant a few years ago and decided she wanted her baby to "listen to classical music so she would be smart" so asked to come with me to the "concert thingies you go to sometimes". Sure thing? The one I got tickets to was "Disney's Fantasia themed" because I thought she might recognize the songs? Half an hour in, she fell asleep, and I get it, she was pregnant and tired, whatever, then I look at the program again and I realized The Rite of Spring was coming, and me being a good friend, tried to wake her up, she slapped my hand away and kept sleeping. Oh well... I tried. She woke up with a statle, jumped from her seat and yelped as she landed. The kid is 7 and I still won't let her forget.

Been replaying 9:01 for an hour now and it’s still got me rolling on the ground and laughing

Thoroughly impressed that you recognized Yannick Nézet-Séguin!! In addition the Philadelphia Orchestra, he's also the music director for the Met Opera in New York and Orchestre Métropolitain in Montréal. He also was with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra for quite a while. He has quite a career! Always fun to see him conduct.

2:46 She signs "Thank you, thank you so much" to him in American Sign Language. Since he's Chinese, he probably didn't understand ASL, but I think that's beautiful!

9:20 THE POWER OF THE BRASS SECTION!!

11:22 could possible be the first happy birthday ever sung in tune

Twoset: uploads Us: happy noises

Now some of us feel exactly what Brett and Eddie feel when people don't know classical music. I immediately recognized Bella Ciao at 9:55 and they just say tetris song... not even close...

10:30 if you ever felt useless just remember the guy in the background conducting nothing

To be honest, Drums fit so well with some Classical pieces, Remember Brett playing Hungarian Dance -5 with drums in V&B battle? It was FANTASTIC 😺

I can give some explanation for #12: that's most probably taken from one of the Wien's New Year Concert that takes place every January 1st, with some staples such as Strauss Jr's Blue Danube Waltz. This piece, Radetzky March (which is always the final one in the list), has a peculiarity, in which the public is also an instrument; the clapping is conducted by the director! Source: Italian guy who follows the Christmas/New Year classical concerts broadcast from our public tv (with also the Christmas one from Assisi, and the Italian New Year one from La Fenice, Venice). Fun fact: in all of Europe Wien's NY concert is broadcast live at ~11.00 on each national main channel, but in Italy is broadcast on the 2nd main channel later at ~13.30, because we broadcast live our concert from La Fenice, Venice, at 12.00 (every timing here is considered according to Italy timezone, CET). It has something with our history, since for a lot of time, until 1861 (unification of Italy) and 1918 (end of WW1), parts of Italy were under control of Austrian Hapsburg empire (now Austria), and Radetzky was a general who bombarded Italian cities causing lots of devastation and deaths. The northern Italy was under the Austrian rule, often in unfavourable conditions. Our concert ends with Giuseppe Verdi's Va' Pensiero (a lyric from Nabucco, that resembles slaves under Nabucodonosor, and Italians under Austrian rule, considered oppressing, and aiming for an united Italy).

That clapping at 4:18 is from the traditional New Year Concert in Vienna. The second encore (was it?) is always Radetzky March and the clapping is also a tradition. The concert is televised to most EU countries (by European Broadcasting Union, same for Eurovision Song Contest). Tickets are randomly drawn and sent across the world because there's, like, tens of thousands who want them and they don't want only super-rich people to get tickets. They do cost something like 100 to 500 euros but anyway.

4:40 that is the New Year's Concert (Neujahrskonzert) in Vienna and it's a tradition to clap at the "Radetzky-Marsch". It is the piece of music that is played every year on this concert. This concert is performed every year on January 1st, in Vienna (Austria🇦🇹), by the "Wiener Philharmoniker".

Yes! Our violin detectives are back!

Oh snap here we go again! I was really really hoping you'd make a video about this! I've been seeing so many recently and really wanted to see you guys react to some! You did not disappoint! Also just want to share my love and appreciation for you guys! Thank you for keeping me motivated to practice and never let me forget how much playing music brings me so much joy!

The actual lyrics (translated into English) of the Queen of the Night aria are even wilder: The vengeance of Hell boils in my heart, Death and despair flame about me! If Sarastro does not through you feel The pain of death, Then you will be my daughter nevermore. Disowned may you be forever, Abandoned may you be forever, Destroyed be forever All the bonds of nature, If not through you Sarastro becomes pale! Hear, Gods of Revenge, Hear a mother’s oath!

I have a family friend with a pipe organ in his home! It doesn't have as many octaves as a church organ since the house is too small, but it's still an extremely powerful instrument. When I was a little kid, I would sometimes be upstairs in the study while guests were over and whenever the organ played, you'd be able to feel the resonance in the floor.

5:48 I need to do this once in my life now. That seems like the ultimate level of power

These are hilarious...All the best for the world tour TwoSet ✨

4:31 This is the New Years Concert in Vienna, Austria and it’s tradition to clap during the Radetzky March by Johann Strauss. As an Austrian I was soo happy to see that on this channel!!!

2:52 oh wow the fact that he chose to apologize eventhough he didnt have to

Once I walked into a church, the organist didn't know I was there, and they started playing the Pink Panther theme!

I love how shamelessly fake that video at the end is, but once I actually did end up in a situation with strangers all spontaneously playing together at a train station. At one point we had two people playing the station piano, someone with a guitar, someone with a transverse flute, someone with a melodica, someone with a cajon drum and a didgeridoo, and a few people singing. Unfortunately, security sent us away for having too big of a set-up, but it was such a wonderful day!

AYOO CHILL OUT 11:00

3:33 Sure, no problem with bringing my organ to your concert guys.

I love Brett's shirt...so classy...literally ❤

Why is nobody talking about Brett's shirt 😭 it's beautiful

(I read a lot of comments about the song at 9:37, of course italians knows "bella ciao" but this is not why I am writing this comment). Hey TwoSetViolin, you plan not a single day in Italy during your tour ??? there are many fans here, please don't forget about us :-) ciao from Italy

Hey TwoSet! I’ve been a fan of your channel for about 7 years now, and I would just like to say that it’s awesome seeing your growth these past few years AND I hope you can bring back violin covers! 🙏🙏 seeing those videos every once in a while would be nice and refreshing. I know those are probably really hard to do and plan out compared to meme reviews and playing charades, but it would be awesome to see covers return!!

Before I even watch this video, let me just say I love it when Brett is wearing the notation shirt😍

9:59 not the Tetris song. I’ve heard it as “Bella ciao” an Italian Partisan (anti-fascist) song.

These lovely boys got me through covid and they still bring so much joy to my heart and the internet, thank you 2 for all you do!!!

4:24 This is the New Year's concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, where the Radetzky March is played as an encore every year (since 1946). The audience usually claps along in one form or another depending on the conductor, it's a great tradition

LET'S GO OUR VIOLIN DETECTIVES ARE BACK

Today is my birthday and I'm so glad to see the new video! And tonight the orchestra has just rehearsed the Shostakovich WaltzⅡ , so I was really surprised when I saw the content!

11:17 That's Yannick Nezet-Seguin at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia with the Philly Orchestra (just a few blocks away from Curtis Institute). So sorry I missed you guys the last time you were in Philly. Definitely planning to see you guys this world tour! Can't wait!

"musicians don't carry around a clarinet in their bag" just made me laugh out loud, my stepdad is a musician and plays a lot of instruments, and he ALWAYS has one or other instrument in his bag, ready to be taken at any moment to be played hahahahh

THANK YOU TWOSETVIOLIN FOR MAKING AWSOME VIDEOS.....I LOVE YOU GUYS ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎻

#3 will always be my favourite 😂 the best scream ever 😅 - Also, seeing as to how active TwoSet has been, props to Editor-San for the hard work in editing all these videos! Here's a flower for you 🌻

Voice gang here! The tiktok of the person singing Queen of the Night is real, you can see their throat moving at 10:27 if you want some easily spottable proof. I'm also part of violin gang lol but I'm studying vocal performance at university so I figured I could chime in on that

The audience clapping together reminds me of watching the nutcracker ballet and at the end during bows occasionally the audience all claps together at the sound of the music and it's amazing

Another entertaining video. Also, I'm happy for you guys & your team that you're going on Tour. I hope we get some behind the scenes videos

bella ciao playing no one: literally no one: Eddy: is tHaT tHe TetRiS sOnG?

Just for extra info: Number 12 (the clapping) is Viena New Years Concert. Radetzky is played every year (it is the signature piece of the concert) and everyone always claps to it. ❤️

My best friend for her sweet 16 did a 1900’s themed ball with old jazz playing, and we all dressed up in 1920’s fashion. It was so fun!

Two grandpas forget to turn on the cool color-changing light behind again lmao

Love your video! Not to be the 🤓 but the piece in number 5 is "Bella Ciao", an Italian patriotic song.

I was a piano student at Juilliard circa 1966. Despite having studied for exams all night my wonderful girlfriend convinced me to go to an afternoon Juilliard string quartet performance of "Death and he Maiden" one of my favorites. So there Iwas 4th row from the stage. Of course I nodded off. My girlfiend knew how much I loved the end of the end of the andante so she nudged me. I woke up to see the viola player cringing as I heard my voice echoing off the walls of the auditorium, "who, who, what what.."

I have absolutely fallen asleep in multiple concert halls. It's just something about really well performed live ensemble classical (and contemporary) music that makes me so comfortable and relaxed, while also stimulating my brain -- it can drop me straight into a dream, even if the piece is very energetic. And they're always the most _amazing_ naps ever. I hope the performers don't mind too much... Note: I've never fallen asleep while playing an instrument myself, but then, I did use the phrase "well performed!" ;P

What a way to put a smile on my (and everyone else's face) early in the morning. Thanks so much guys!

"if u sound like this that doesn't mean you are singing opera it means there something in your as* " i lost it😂💀

As a music student in voice, this video made me realize how much classical music I don't know. I had heard every song, but I couldn't tell you their names or composers for some of them. You guys inspire me to learn more as a musician!

i was once at a ren faire at the guy selling ocrinas started playing Carmen and the person selling the costumes started singing along. She was really good and it was a ton of fun to listen to!

Hi! Love your channel so so so much! Keep up the great work and in excited to see you in ATL!! ❤❤

That opera singing tiktok is like a scene out of a romantic movie.

I am in a orchestra and we constantly have our own concerts with all the different "leveled" orchestra in the whole "orchestra" organization, and the most advanced orchestra performed the song where the audience is clapping yet surprisingly all of them were clapping on time and we had a very nice time.

So glad you guys are making videos again. Your channel gives me hope for humanity. 💜💜

At Min 9:30 it's "Bella Ciao" a popular and patriotic Song from Italy.

Me: about to go to sleep Two set: *uploads Me: alright I’ll sleep 14 mins later

I love you guys! I've been watching for 3 years now! I see improvement in both your playing

9:40 that’s actually Bell Ciao, an Italian song originally sung to go against the harsh working conditions in the Italian rice fields. Later revived as an Anti Fascism Song in Italy during WWII.

You should react to less known classical composers as well. I think you would enjoy listening to George Enescu and Ciprian Porumbescu. They wrote both for viollin, since that was their preffered instrument, but they also composed pieces for orchestras.

The 3rd one is just so touching 😭I can feel the love

seriously guys. just signed up to your Brisbane tour. only joined the channel for a day, it's so funny in a complementary way

When I first watched your videos I was on 8th grade and I've been in a kind of depression. Because I've had a big exam at the end of the year. But you guys gave me the most joyful moments in my entire life. I'm a piinist and to be honest I've had a distance to my enstrument until I met you. Thank you for making me love classical music again.

Every since the first time that video with the opera duet popped up a couple years ago, I'm still just in awe of THE AUDACITY! Dude has...let's call it "fortitude" to be family friendly, here. Also, that only worked out because he didn't f*** it up, and knew the piece well. It would have been so easy for that to go wrong. I can't. The second-hand anxiety just gets me every time I watch that clip!

you just know they're practicing 40hours a day to not recognize bella ciao

At second place, it Was Yannick Nézet- Seguin. Principal conductor Philadelphia and principal guest conductor at London philharmonic

For those who don’t know, number 12 is Vienna New Year’s Concert. During that piece, the audience is supposed to clap! 😊